Not a music related post.. but an important one for Australian Art History.. as Australia looses a legend of the art world 💔 Vale John Olsen 1928-2023 ✨ “Painting is a means of self-enlightenment…” 💫 Farewell Mr Olsen.. thank you for your dedication to the arts in this country and for the inspiration and enlightenment.. 💫 Pictured is one of our favourite pieces that hangs in the collection of the @artgalleryofnsw in Sydney: Five Bells, 1963 by John Olsen 💙 'Five bells was my first commission to paint in situ to cover a wall … I didn’t hesitate. I brushed a line around the core theme, the seed-burst, the life-burst, the sea-harbour, the source of life. Inside and around this core, I painted images drawn from metaphors and similes in [Kenneth] Slessor’s poem of our harbour city, and from my own emotional and physical involvement with the harbour, and with my young family in Watsons Bay … 'I wanted to show the Harbour as a movement, a sea suck, and the sound of the water as though I am part of the sea ... The painting says directly what I wanted to say: "I am in the sea-harbour, and the sea-harbour is in me".' - John Olsen, 1928-2023 @johnolsenartist 💙 Sending peace, love and light to his family @timjolsen @louise_olsen @stephenormandy @camilleormandy @olsen_gallery RIP ❤️ #johnolsen #australianart #fivebells #art #enlightenment #magic #visualart #dream #artist #inspiration #arthistory #legendsneverdie #australia #australianartist #rip (at Art Gallery of New South Wales) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq7lbNBPcSu/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
